Act 1 Flashcards

1
Q

Starts with

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Starts with a black and white projection & news broadcaster/Churchill → juxtaposes life the jamaicans bring to the screen

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2
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What happens when Hortense sings at the beginning

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Hortense singing while projection moved and set comes on → dropped down/stage spins/chairs on stage

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3
Q

Blond woman over-acting

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American accent too overdone and sounds Irish at some points

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4
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Hortense - monologue - great accent

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Sarcastic

witty

in love

brave

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5
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Hortense explains her childhood and how she fell in love

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Hortense sits next to her younger self

Lights get brighter

Colourful clothing in Jamaica cf Britain

When preset hortense talks to audience the lights go darker

Present hortense stays on stage the whole time
Use table as a ‘tree’ simplistic set design

Michael ‘falls’ out of tree → flips off table

Still in ‘classroom’ set up
   Past hortense runs around → becomes 
   chicken shed  → present hortense flips 
   blackboard round
      Blackboard drawn on - looks like 
       bamboo

Present hortense responds instead of past hortense

Adults all face to back but kids face front

When michael back it is a warm light until dad prays at table then it goes brighter

Hortense gets hit and flinches when Michael’s father shouts → faces his wrath too many times?

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6
Q

Use table to ‘look for woodpecker’

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Michael checking hortenses out

Hortense speaks to aud & moves a chair - back to blackboard

Michael walked her to door and he goes through frame hortense doesn’t

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7
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Lights change when michael and white woman kiss → creepy music/storm gets worse → lighting = darker and black and white and harsher

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8
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All the actors pick up the chairs and spin around the stage → hurricane picking up

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9
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All actors at back of stage facing away → slowly spin and face Hortense

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10
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Hortense screamed at by Michael’s mother

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11
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Michael want to leave

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Mother all over him screaming

Father keeping distance - stomped foot

Hortense distancing herself from Michael - too hurt

Mother screams when michael touches Hortense’s arm - caring

Tableau → Hortense singing then everyone sings with
Projection of a sea crashing and props
taken off by ensemble when singing

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12
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Door frame come up through centre of stage and queenie and white guy walk through it

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Bed wheeled on

Parents came on with bucket and a pig → cut open a pig on stage

Aunt popped on stage → lifted on
Trying to queenie to go down to London
- Queenie wants to leave farm

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13
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When queenie goes to london

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Projections of london on screen → making it appear wonderful to Queenie

Ensemble comes on - walk around → busy london

Cinema seats wheeled on on moving stage

Mirrors opened and queenie walks out dressed up real nice

Excited for life 
   Hope she has kids → hope for a better 
    life
   Finally happy
   Happy to be out of a farm
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14
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Meeting bernie for the first time

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Projections of sweets

Sweet counter wheeled on

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15
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Bernie good actor

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Very quiet and nervous

Stiff - wooden

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16
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Cinema scene

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Projection of an old movie

Queenie responds to guy in the movie saying i love you → unsure if she does

Get engaged

Aunt dies dramatically
  Chokes on a sweet
  Goes down through floor 
  Comedic relief
  Queenie’s mother and father chuck 
   sweets she died from down the ‘grave’

Ensemble sing for funeral

Rainy weather for funeral and when bernie walked through the doors
Bernie awkwardly carries her through
doorway - came from floor

Window floating

Bernie father stays on stage

Has dad carry off coats

Comedic scene

Then heart wrenching scene - no children yet

17
Q

Back to argument

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Ensemble walk around outside

Then alarms go off and they run

Lights go dark

Bombs come down

Light is bomb shines on bernard and queenie

People go flying

Bernie grasps queenie to him and says he loves her - first time on set most likely first time he ever said it to her

People walk around - people that have been bombed
Handing out flyers

18
Q

Queenie at home saying goodbye to bernard

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Trying not to cry

Quick goodbye

Clouds projected onto background

Doors open → foreshadow arthur’s death

Bernard looking back at queenie

19
Q

Roommates walk in

A

Say hello

Jazz music playing in background → queenie and michael fall in love

Handshake

Jazz music playing another black guy walk in
Getting beat up by a white guy - wins
fight when talking to add then gets hit
again
Music stops when fighting stops
Explains how he joined the army

20
Q

Joining army

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Speaks to a jazz guy - in jamaica

Putting army uniform on

21
Q

In army speaking to ‘sergeant bastard’

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Planes overhead

Angry for having to drive

22
Q

Walk into town

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White women move away from black guys when they wave

Never seen them before

Baby cries

Says walked into village ‘on his own’ emphasised - has to remind his friends to move away

Arthur approaches - chases him
Plane flies over head - shadow then flies on streets projections

Thinks arthur is trying to wank - comedic effect

23
Q

Black guy meets queenie

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Checking her out

Thought it was micheal

Freeze frame while black guy spoke to her
Gilbert makes queenie laugh

Takes the food given by queenie

24
Q

Dancing when eating

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Gilbert gets beat up by 2 white guys - interrupt his monologue with the aud

White guys trying to get gilbert to salute him

Queenie walks on looking for arthur

Arthur walks on with flowers for queenie

Going to cinema to get away from white guys - queenie didn’t know what was about to happen to gilbert

Gilbert forced to sit at back - black segregation

American tries to tell gilbert to sit

Queenie trying to get them to shut up

Was in movie theatre - fight breaks out all the white soldiers attacking gilbert

25
Q

Arthur gets shot in commotion

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Churchill speaks about unconditional surrender - jazz playing when he pauses

Balck ensemble walk on and sing a song

Celebration

26
Q

Gilbert back in jamaica

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Gilbert crashes into hortense

Flirting with her and dancing around her

Talking about Michael

Gilbert breaks the news to hortense that

Michael most likely dead - trying to cheer her up

27
Q

Queenie in Britain with a UK person

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Thinking bernard might be dead when speaking to a high up person in war

Being told bernard spent time in prison

28
Q

Back to Hortense in Jamaica

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Talking with her friend

Friend wants to go England

Gilbert walks in

Gilberts friend walks in and tries to pull one of the women

Rioting taking place in rally

Gilbert pleading for celia to go to England

Celia’s mother is ill

Hortense persuades Gilbert to drop Celia because she has to look after her mother

Slapped hortense for making Celia miss her chance at going to England

Gilbert begs Hortense instead

29
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Hortense and Gilbert on stage

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Michael pops to see Queenie

Flirting - showing that they really like him

Telling Queenie how he survived and how a farmer saved his life

Queenie gave Michael his lucky charm

Michael says her palms are blacker than his - excuse to bring closer

Hortense and Gilbert talking about him getting the boat and she wanting to go to England

Queenie talking about how she feels alive with Michael

Gilbert thinks about kissing Hortense

Hortense speaking to Celia in the open saying she is sorry - doesn’t want to be left behind

Gilbert saying he is done with Jamaica - aspiring to become a lawyer

All dreaming for the better life, hoping unsure on whether to take the leap of faith for love/their dreams/a better life

30
Q

Boat scene

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Gilbert saying his goodbyes to his friend and to Hortense

Hortense doesn’t want to be left alone
Wanting a kiss from hortense - now married

Projection of a ship comes on

Gilbert approaches it

Ensemble walk in background across stage - busy docking port